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[stromberg]

Sophie Marceau became "Officier des Arts et Lettres" yesterday.
This medal is one of the highest awards France has to give away for artists.

Unfortunately I have once again not been able to find an English source for this, only a french one: http://fr.news.yahoo.../215/31pi1.html

Please forgive me for not making a fool out of myself and trying to translate it from French to English via German, but maybe in the next few days, it will appear also on English Yahoo.

But maybe, some of our French board memebers can help us out on this?

[Coop]

Well, I'm not French but I've got an A-Level in it. 'Bout time I blew the dust off it and put it to good use

It roughly says:

Yesterday the Culture Minister, Jean-Jaques Aillagon, honoured >>a conquering woman and ambitious actress<< by awarding Sophie Marceau the medal of an officer of arts and letters.

"You embody liberty and the revolution and your career is part of the tradition of great French actors and performers", the minister emphasised. "It's a fact that between "La Boum" and James Bond, Sophie has, step by step, developed an international career. She incarnates the image of a perfect woman and she deserves for that the gratitude of the Republic."

It then lists the celebrities present.

The language is quite florid. I can't imaging Dame Judy being praised for her spirit of liberty and revolution.

[stromberg]

Thanks for that, Coop.

It's mostly because of that "florid language" that I wasn't able to translate it properly. In fact, I live only a few miles from the French frontier and should have a better knowledge of the language, but since I left school it has become somewhat "rusty". I have no problems with talking, but writing...

I hope my English became better in the last few months thanks to this forum, but it's the same as with French: temporarily flourid language problems.

And I forgot: Congrats to Sophie Marceau.